On a board showing , Mike McDonald checked first to act in a heads-up pot versus Benoit Galland. After a quick pause, Benoit fired a bet of 133K into a pot roughly double that amount. Mike tanked for a moment before putting together a 400K bet and sliding it forward, and without much hesitation, Benoit replied with an all-in of 663K total. Although it wasn’t much more, Mike seemed convinced that Benoit had the goods and agonized over the decision for a few minutes. He apologized in advance in case he was “slow-rolling”, and finally made the call, tabling a monstrous for Kings-full-of-Aces. Benoit tabled a second-best before getting up and shaking hands with his table-mates.

With that pot, Mike climbed to 2,200,000 for the chip-lead with 4 players remaining. Marc-Olivier is in second place with 1,400,000, Sorel in third with 850,000 and Roberto holds the shortest stack with 800,000.

Play has just entered level 17.

5th place: Benoit Galland – $30,000.00

Marc-Olivier raised the action to 35K from the cutoff, and Sorel Mizzi placed a 3-bet to 85K from the button. With 243K, Vishal Singh Maini 4-bet all-in from the small blind, and after Marc-Olivier folded, Sorel went into the tank for a few moments. He eventually made the call and both hands were tabled:

Vishal:
Sorel:

Sorel found a runner-runner club flush on the board to earn the 1/2 million chip pot, sending Vishal to the cage to pickup his payout.

6th place: Vishal Singh Maini – $20,000.00

Marc-Olivier opened to 35K from early position, and Ryan Yu 3-bet all-in for 178K from the hijack. Mike McDonald made the call from the button, and Marc-Olivier flashed his pair of Sevens as he was mucking his hand.

Ryan:
Mike:

Both players paired the flop, but Mike’s hand was strongest on the board to bring the High Roller into the money. The final 6 have locked in a min-cash of $20,000 and are competing for the $200,000 top prize.

John Krpan arrived at the final table as the short stack with roughly 100K, and found a double-up fairly early on. A few orbits later, he opened to 35K from middle position, and was 3-bet to 108K by Mike McDonald from the blinds. He replied with a 4bet all-in for 246K and Mike obliged.

John tabled and was in great shape to bring himself back into the game, however Mike, holding , made a straight on the board to bring the field onto the money bubble.

On one of the first hands of the High Roller final table, Marc-Olivier opened to 27K from early position, and then 4-bet shoved after Jason Koon raised to 80K next to act. Jason made the call with his premium hand, only to see he ran into rockets.

Marc-Olivier:
Jason:

Jason picked up a glimmer of hope on the flop but inevitably fell short as the board read . With that pot, Marc-Oliver breached the 7-figure mark by a hair.

Shortly after the break, Michael Addamo open-shoved his 20bb stack from the button with , finding a call from Mike McDonald with in the big blind. Michael found no help on the board and was sent to the rail in 10th place.

The final table of the High Roller is now set, and the line-up is listed below. Payouts are reserved for the top 6, with a $200,000 top prize.

High Roller Final Table